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THE annual "hype cycle" chart from Gartner, a market research firm, tries to depict the degree to which certain technologies are exaggerated. Smart robots? Don't hold your breath. Big data? Not yet. In the firm's view, innovation advances in stages: from exuberance to pessimism to adoption. Not every technology progresses at the same speed, so Gartner assigns each an estimated time until the end of its ride.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. AdamsYou must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von BraunOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

I would say that 8 was not so successfull as they would have wished to. So they need something new to come out...

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Silicon Valley has been wracked with controversies about sexism lately. Only 17 percent of Google's technical employees are women. Tech conference organizers routinely post speaker lists that skew male. The female cofounder of Tinder was allegedly harassed and erased from corporate history last year. Yet some people still minimize the problem.

Their argument: Since the tech industry is populated by meritocratic rationalists, it would be impossible for a talented female engineer not to rise to the top. Therefore, if few women are in the industry, the problem is not sexism but the absence of some innate capacity or interest on the part of (most) women. In other words, the dearth of women in tech is only natural.

Having grown up in India and worked as a coder in the US, I find this line of reasoning specious.

Having been in the industry for some 30+ years now, I have had the occasion to work with a number of men and women. Yes, the vast majority were men (as inferred by the article).

Of the women... I can only think of 1 or 2 that seemed to actually enjoy the work, let alone the environment. A number of them had degrees in other fields (chemical engineering, math), but found themselves in the industry by accident, not by design.

Does that mean that there is a sexism issue? Not that I've seen.

Where I work, people are part of a team; their gender is irrelavent. What is relavent is: can you do the job at hand?

Of the women... I can only think of 1 or 2 that seemed to actually enjoy the work, let alone the environment.

Maybe that's because the male-dominated environment is actually off-putting to women. To my mind that's the biggest indication of a problem. Exemplified by the Ruby conference which actually used porn to make jokes in their slides.

I simply do not believe that women are less capable than men at computing. It's like politics, where everyone decries all-woman shortlists as unfair to women, because people will feel they only got there to fill a quota. Thing is, if you're only attracting or recruiting male candidates, you already have a selection bias going on. Taking steps to address it is just truly being commited to equal opportunities.

"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.

The giant flood of near-identical opinion pieces isn't solving the problem (assuming it is a problem). People have been complaining about it for a decade and nothing serious has happened. It's just polarizing. The biggest echo-chamber is the "women can program too"-camp, but they're too busy agreeing and congratulating each other on their progressiveness to ever do anything. The other camp are unorganized barbarians, venting their anger incoherently in the responses to all of those opinion pieces.
Both sides are useless, and the opinion pieces are just written because they're click bait.

I have an idea, run some challenges and give out some cool prizes which women's are very much interested in Let us see whether there's any difference in fellow women programmers participating or interacting in Lounge for that matter.

A draft of a new UN report seen by The New York Times warns that our planet is at risk of "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts" if the world's governments don't quickly alter their course and do more to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases. The report, drafted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says that we are already nearing a temperature at which the ice sheet covering Greenland is expected to begin melting — an unstoppable process that could raise global sea levels by 23 feet and bring other extremes of climate including heat waves and torrential rain.

Apple's a hardware company, Microsoft's a software company, and Google makes almost all of its income from advertising. All three companies have been trying for years to diversify their revenue streams. How's that working out?

Hint: Google still makes all their money by annoying you with that same ad that follows you around like your annoying little brother.

With Hollywood hovering in the background looking for cash, last month the High Court ordered Kim Dotcom to reveal in detail where he's getting all his money from. The Mega founder isn't ready to give in though, and is putting up a fight ahead of an appeal hearing in October.

So he launches 12 useless startups, as though there weren't enough of them. Just go to Windows store eh?

Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!